Les Miserables

IMDb link: 0113828
IMDb rating: 7.4 (4,413 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History
Director: Michel Boujenah, Claude Lelouch
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alessandra Martines, Salomé Lelouch and others

Release date: 3 Nov 1995
Release year: 1995
Runtime: 175 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: france, live action, 1900s, guillotine, reference to the battle of waterloo, normandy landings, year 1943, boxing, reference to world war one, year 1918

Plot:

Henri Fortin is poor and iliterate former boxer. Ziman is rich Jewish lawyer from Paris. During WWII they meet when Fortin agrees to drive Ziman's family to Switzerland. Intrigued by Victor Hugo's novel "Les Miserables", Fortin asks the Zimans to read that book to him during the travel. Before the end of movie every main character would see his character in situations similar to those in Hugo's novel.

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